Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Nanny Corbyn, should he ever be elected as Prime Minister (when he will be 70), has decided that men pose such a threat to women when they travel on trains that he will segregate the sexes and have women only carriages.

Segregation for your own "safety" on trains is but the first step to segregation in other aspects of our lives.

Beware the rise of the dinosaurs!

Pretty sure that ISIS back a policy of women-only carriages on public transport.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Twitter has decided that it doesn't like sites that tweet politician's tweets that the politicians have deleted. As such Politwoops website that saved tweets deleted by politicians said Monday that Twitter had blocked its access to Twitter, halting its operations across 30 countries.

"The Open State Foundation started Politwoops in the Netherlands in
2010, and its collection of deleted tweets proved a frequent source of
embarrassment for politicians, as well as a useful tool for journalists.

But the foundation said it
was informed on Friday night by Twitter that access was being shut off
to Politwoops in the 30 countries in which it operates, following the
blocking of Politwoops' US operation in May.

It said Twitter was also blocking Diplotwoops, which screens deleted messages by diplomats and embassies worldwide.

The Open State Foundation said it was told that Twitter had decided to
suspend access "following thoughtful internal deliberation and close
consideration of a number of factors that doesn't distinguish between
users".

"No one user is more
deserving of that ability (to delete tweets) than another. Indeed,
deleting a tweet is an expression of the user's voice," Twitter told the
foundation.

Since being formed at a so-called
hackathon five years ago, Politwoops spread to 30 countries from Egypt
to the Vatican, as well as the European Parliament.

It started operating in the US in 2012 thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, which fights for transparency in politics.

In a statement to AFP, Twitter said that "the ability to delete one's
tweets - for whatever reason - has been a long-standing feature of
Twitter for all users".

Twitter policy says that those
who have access to its APIs (application programme interfaces), as
Politwoops did, must delete content "that Twitter reports as deleted or
expired".

"From time to time, we come upon apps or
solutions that violate that policy. Recently we identified several
services that used the feature we built to allow for the deletion of
tweets to instead archive and highlight them," Twitter said.

"We subsequently informed these services of their noncompliance and suspended their access to our APIs."

Open State Foundation director Arjan El Fassed insisted comments made
by politicians on Twitter should remain in the public domain.

"What elected politicians publicly say is a matter of public record.
Even when tweets are deleted, it's part of parliamentary history," he
said.

"What politicians say in public should be available to anyone," El Fassed added.

"This is not about typos but it is a unique insight on how messages from elected politicians can change without notice."

A check on the Politwoops website on Monday showed no activity for the past two days."

This is not a black and white issue in my opinion.

In essence should politicians who tweet be treated as human beings, or as politicians?

When a politician misspeaks on TV/radio his/her "misspeak" is more often than not repeatedly broadcast to millions.

Why should Twitter be any different?

Personally I think that depends on what they are tweeting about. A politician who tweets on a political subject is clearly acting as a politician. However, a non political tweet by a politician can be construed as a human being expressing a view. Thus, given that Twitter allows all users to delete human tweets, it should be the case that a politician can delete a human tweet as well.

However, sadly, it is the nature of politicians that they seek to take political advantage in all things.

Nanny has managed to hit two of her most hated targets, drink and those who are retired who contribute nothing to her "paradise one earth", in one blow this time by warning that people over 65 shouldn't drink too much.

According to academics at the
institute of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience at King’s College
London a fifth of over-65s are drinking unsafe amounts of alcohol, posing a
major risk to their health.

Not this guff about "safe limits" again!

When will Nanny get it into here thick head that "one size fits all" simply doesn't work when it comes to what is "good/bad" for our health?

The study found drinkers were more likely to be white British or
Irish, while people from Caribbean, African or Asian backgrounds were
less likely to drink.

Nanny's bollocks guidelines state that men should not drink more than 21 units of
alcohol a week, and women 14 units. The study, published in the journal
BMJ Open, analysed the GP records of nearly 28,000 people in the
borough.

Dr Mark Ashworth, from the division of health and social care
research at King’s College London, said:

“This research highlights that
as GPs we need be more aware of the risk of older people, especially
men, drinking excessively. Reducing alcohol misuse is important to
prevent premature death and serious negative health effects, such as
alcoholic liver disease, which are big burden on our health system. Alcohol excess carries additional risks in the older population such
as falls and confusion. Based on our findings, the elderly who were
most at risk were those from the white British population rather than
from an ethnic minority, and were wealthier and better educated rather
than those from a more deprived background.”

In a nutshell, Nanny feels that the elderly are a burden. That being the case she should encourage people to drink more, so that they die earlier!

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Nanny has had something of a volte farce recently over e fags (or vaps as they are sometimes referred to).

Despite earlier misgivings about e fags being to "route to smoking", Nanny has now decreed that e fags are the route to "salvation" from smokers.

Public Health England asked a group of "experts" (pass the sick bag someone) to study "evidence". Their conclusion was that e fags are 95% less harmful
than tobacco. This is amusingly ironic, given that in Wales the government there wants to ban e fags in public.

Anyhoo, that aside, Nanny is now considering prescribing e fags on the NHS.

Errmm....am I the only one to spot the idiocy of this?

Given that someone who smokes is trying to quit, why cannot he/she used the money saved on buying fags to pay for the e fags?

Monday, August 17, 2015

Knock me down with a feather, after all those years wherein we were bombarded with dire warnings from Nanny about the dangers of saturated fat found in butter, meat or cream it now transpires it's not dangerous at all.

In fact, the real danger lies in food abomination products such as margarine.

A recent study has shown that saturated fat does not increase the risk of stroke, heart disease or diabetes. However trans-fats, found in processed foods like margarine raises the risk of death by 34 per cent.

The new research which looked at 50 studies
involving more than one million people found there was no evidence that
saturated fat was bad for health.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

The anti smoking Nazis are no the march again. This time their target are those who smoke in pub gardens.

The Royal Society for
Public Health want the public smoking ban extended to beer gardens, al fresco eating areas of restaurants, parks,
and outside school gates. The Nazis want smoking to be seen as "abnormal" and more
controls put in place where people gather.

"Children are hugely
receptive to the behaviour of the adults around them. The sight
therefore of individuals smoking at prominent locations risks teaching
them that smoking is a normal and safe habit.

We
believe that banning smoking in these locations via an exclusion zone
could further denormalise smoking, ensuring that it is seen as an
abnormal activity and potentially, prevent children and young people
from beginning in the future."

The organisation also called for:

All places selling cigarettes to be forced to also offer e-cigarettes

Greater use of e-cigarettes by smoking cessation services

A new system to license places that can sell cigarettes

And for e-cigarettes to be renamed vapourisers or nicotine control products as the term was misleading

Monday, August 10, 2015

"The former boss of Kids Company
used the charity’s money to pay the boarding school fees for her
chauffeur’s daughter, it was claimed, as it emerged the band Coldplay
could step in to save part of the embattled organisation.

The revelation comes amid allegations of financial mismanagement by
Camila Batmanghelidjh as pressure grows for charities to be more
accountable.

The Charity Commission
confirmed to the Daily Telegraph it is looking into allegations by the
charity’s former employees of “inappropriate spending” but it said it is
not a formal investigation at this point and that no firm conclusion
has been reached.

However, the Mail
on Sunday reported the charity helped finance a spot for the teenage
daughter of Jeton Cavolli, her personal chauffeur, at Dauntsey’s School
where fees reach nearly £30,000 a year."

Thursday, August 06, 2015

"There has been a fuss in the media recently over the resignation of
Camila Batmanghelidjh, from her position of CEO of a charity Kids
Company that she founded.It transpires the heart of the issue relates to non payment by the
charity of nearly £700K of unpaid National Insurance to HMRC in 2003.HMRC has written off £589,587 of the amount owed (at the taxpayers'
expense) and Nanny, it seems, will hand over £3M of taxpayers' money to
continue to fund the charity. Laurence Guinness, director of communications at Kids Company, is quoted by the Third Sector saying that
the charity had:

"experienced a delay in making National Insurance
payments to HMRC as resources were focused on meeting the immediate
needs of a high number of vulnerable children with complex needs who
were not receiving statutory support".

A "delay"?Twelve years??When does a charity cease to be a charity, and become a business?"

Barely three weeks on, and the "charity" is now closing down amid some very ugly rumours indeed about various issues.

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said warnings had been sounded as far back as the Labour government:

"All
those reasons, it seems, were put to one side - and the reason,
bluntly, is because it appears Kids Company was a charity which enjoyed
the protection of Downing Street, under Gordon Brown and David Cameron."

The observant amongst you will be asking, what about the £3M of taxpayers' money that was handed over?

The Cabinet Office's lead official raised concerns that the grant, intended for a "transformation and downsizing plan", would be poor value for money, but was told by ministers to press ahead.

It seems that Nanny will make an attempt to get it back, not least because the Cabinet Office believes that the conditions attached to its use were not met!

Monday, August 03, 2015

In mid July I wrote that Brighton and Hove could become one of the first places in the UK to ban smoking in its parks and on its beaches.

Unsurprisingly, as with all of Nanny's "bright ideas", there has been some mission creep. It now transpires that the proposed "voluntary" smoking ban in Brighton and Hove’s beaches and in parks
could also be extended to the outside of pubs and restaurants.

Councillor Dan Yates, who chairs the Brighton and Hove Health and
Wellbeing Board (what an absurd name for a board), is quoted by Brighton and Hove News:

“We wanted to see what people’s attitudes were to
smoking where people are eating and drinking as we do not have any
information on this.

Currently the inside of pubs and restaurants are legally smoke-free but not outside areas.We would certainly not be looking at any additional compulsory
smoking restrictions to business, other than the existing smoking ban.

But
depending on the results of the consultation, we may want to work with
businesses to encourage smoke-free outdoor areas on a voluntary basis.”

Nick Griffin, managing director of Pleisure, which runs Brighton
pubs including the Great Eastern in Trafalgar Street which has several
benches on the pavement outside, said the idea was “bonkers”.

“Clearly the proposal hasn’t been thought through. The law of unintended consequences will take effect here.

If one bans smoking from outside seating areas, the smoker will
simply (and I hasten to add after much confrontation!) smoke in the
street where they aren’t yet banned. Surely this is a worse scenario
with more scope for litter, visibility from children and no greater
protection for the public.

Add to this the risk it places hospitality staff under, with much
of the income coming from tourism from places where such a ban will not
be present.

It’s a bonkers idea! What is the justification for it?”

Retarded thinking by a retarded council!

By the way, if you have ever wondered who invented "passive smoking" here is the answer:

"Karl Astel — upstanding president of Jena University, poisonous
anti-Semite, euthanasia fanatic, SS officer, war criminal and
tobacco-free Germany enthusiast — liked to walk up to smokers and tear
cigarettes from their unsuspecting mouths. (He committed suicide when
the war ended, more through disappointment than fear of hanging.).

It
comes as little surprise to discover that the phrase “passive smoking”
(Passivrauchen) was coined not by contemporary American admen, but by
Fritz Lickint, the author of the magisterial 1100-page Tabak und
Organismus (“Tobacco and the Organism”), which was produced in
collaboration with the German AntiTobacco League."

The anti smoking fanatics owe their origins to the Nazis!

Feel free to complete the consultation here, and tell Brighton and Hove Council exactly what you think of them.

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